Section 2Definitions

s. 2

2. Definitions In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “instrument” includes every document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded; (b) “legal practitioner” means any advocate or attorney of the Supreme Court [* * *] or any pleader authorised under any law for the time being in force to practise in any Court of law; (c) “notary” means a person appointed as such under this Ordinance: Provided that for a period of six months from the commencement of this Ordinance it shall include also a person who, before such commencement, was appointed a notary public by the Master of Faculties in England, and is, immediately before such commencement, in practice as a notary in any part of [in the territory now comprised in Bangladesh]; (d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; (e) “Register” means a Register of Notaries to be maintained under section 4.

1. 2. The words “or any advocate of the High Court” were omitted by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
2. 3. The words “in the territory now comprised in Bangladesh” were substituted for the word “Pakistan” by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)